Oct. 24, 1918¹ [handwritten at top]

NORTH CAROLINA,
MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

Mrs. M. P. Weeks being duly sworn says:

That she is a resident of the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C.; that she is within the jurisdiction of the Local Board of Exemptions for the City of Charlotte; that she resides at #906 West Fourth Street in the City of Charlotte; that she is the mother of Leslie D. Weeks, who as she is informed and believes has been certified for service in the United States Army by error; that upon information and belief on September 13th., 1917, the District Exemption Board at Statesville, N.C., for the Western District of North Carolina certified to the Local Board at Charlotte, N.C., that the claim for exemption for Leslie D. Weeks was not allowed, that the Local Board acting upon this information certified the registrant, Leslie D. Weeks for service on the 19th day of September, 1917; that upon information and belief this affiant says that the District Board at Statesville did not act upon the registrant's claim for exemption until the 26th day of September, 1917; that on the said 26th day of Sept. 1917, the registrant, Leslie D. Week’s claim for exemption was passed upon and allowed by the District Board at Statesville after he had been sent to Camp Jackson at Columbia, S.C.

That this affiant has already contributed two sons, John Weeks and Harry Weeks to the Army, who are now serving in the Fifth Coast Artillery at Fort Caswell, N.C.

That while her husband, R. D. Weeks is living and is employed in the City of Charlotte as a clerk in a small grocery store, receiving a monthly wage of about $60.00, which is not sufficient to keep up the family expenses and to pay a weekly installment to the Building & Loan Association on their home; that it is absolutely necessary to have Leslie D. Weeks exempted in order that he may aid in supporting his father and mother and other dependents, one young brother and sister, who resides at #906 West Fourth Street; that the two sons who are with the Coast Artillery, thinking that Leslie D. Weeks had been exempted and was left at home to help support the family, invested a part of their monthly earnings in liberty bonds and will not be able to contribute anything out of their wages to the support of their father and mother and other members of the family.

This affiant feels that he has contributed more than her quota to the great cause in which the American Government is now engaged and she earnestly believes that at least one son should be exempted from service in the army to help support his father and mother and therefore respectfully asks the Local Board at Charlotte to request the Adjutant General of the State for authority to re-open the registrant’s claim for exemption in order that the Local Board may hear such evidence as it may require touching upon the right of the said Leslie D. Weeks, to be exempted under the law.

Mrs. M. P. Weeks

Sworn and subscribed to before me on this the 24th day of October, 1917.

W. M. Smith
Notary Public

(My commission expires)
(July 13th., 1919)

Enclosed in: 1918, Jan. 7. McCall to Bickett.

1. This document is mistakenly dated 1918 when it was actually created on October 24, 1917.